Just saw the Halloween episode last night where little Maggie was descovered to be sired by the aliens. At the end of the episode they zoomed straight up from Springfield into space. The spot they started from was almost exactly where Houston Texas is.
I've seen that regular geeks can build things such as quantum force microscopes in their own homes, how hard would it be for someone to build a quantum crypto system?
"The JoyDress is integrated with flexible vibrapads that vibrate by programmed impulses from a thin, user-controlled command pad connected by tiny wires. It enhances the feeling of body consciousness with pleasant sensations that energize feelings, stimulate blood circulation, and give you a gentle massage."
Just imagine. Hacked to run linux, wireless LAN, etc, etc.
You can get quite a bit of power with just a few loops of wire in the right place under the high tension lines. It would be stealing since you are putting additional load on the power lines. However the lights in the article are being by the electric field driven by leakage current which is lost anyway.
It sounds like it is possible for an ordinary person to contest patents. Of course the patent attys and other's who have a lot to lose will say all sorts of scary reasons why not, but here's a couple thoughts that I have on the subject...
1. The Scientologists tried to scare off their critics by throwing high dollar lawyers at them. Some of the critics countered very successfully by acting as their own lawyers and filing and handling their own cases. Seems to me that this tactic will work with the patent office since anyone should be able to represent themselves. What can the patent office do to you anyway for trying to use the system?
2. A while back the FCC had it's whole fee structure thrown out when it was declaired unconstitutional and discrimatory. I think the main reason was that it discriminated in favor of large businesses. Seems to me that the patent office is in the same boat today. Maybe a class action suit against the patent office fee structure is due.
3. No one really has come out and said if there is a fee for filing a prior art claim against an existing patent. Is there?
How hard is it to file file art papers with the patent office? Does the patent office charge for these filings? Can anyone do it? Maybe it's time to generate some boilerplate filings and start attacking some of these bogus patents out there.
"The first thing you must do is to find a way to save Hubble. If you cannot do that then I have serious doubts of NASA's commitment to be anything other than a welfare program for aerospace contractors"
Lost interest in that worthless show when then converted a Mustang into a lawnmower. Hanging chrome plated non-functional mower blades from the car doors is suppose to be cool? Caught one of the later shows where they tried to drive a couple backhoe blades off a pair of hydraulic pumps using a little tiny fan belt coupled to a car motor. Seems they could figure out why the fan belt kept braking. Jesse was there the whole time and didn't catch on. Makes me wonder how real his bikes are. Don't count on Monster Garage for any useful inspiration.
Hollywood likes to take a good movie (like the Matrix) and make lousy sequels to them. Why don't they takie a lousy movie (like the Core) and make a decent sequel?
This was pretty remarkable considering that the earthquake was something like the third or forth largest in the world that year. Alaska routinely gets earthquakes that would level cities in other parts of the world. I've set though a couple 5 plus ones that people there hardly mentioned the next day. Now if they could only stop the drunks from shooting holes in the pipeline...
While we are at it why not commercialize air, commercialize water, commercialize every spoken and written word, commercialize music, commercialize feelings, commercialize everything. People have no right to enjoy anything unless some company owns it and can get paid for it. People are here to serve corperations not the other way around.
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This is sarcasm... but that's the way a lot of business people think
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I've got to stop sniffing the whiteout confiscated from the MS Windows users. After reading the following quote from the article...
In the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones is confronted by an obviously highly skilled and aggressive local sword fighter who clearly expects to hack up our hero after a glorious, and ritualistic, hand to hand battle. Unfortunately Dr. Jones is too harried to play, and shoots him dead at twenty paces in a classic demonstration of what happens when a clearly superior technology appears on the scene.
I had this vision...
Bill 'Rabid Sword Fighter' Gates faces off Indiana 'Linus' Jones...
Bill: "What makes you think you can even begin to whoop me and my mighty MS Sword 3.1XP.NT.DOS!?! I've already vanquished CPM, IPM, GEM, Lotus, and the Federal Govment. I have a huge mighty MS sword developed by thousands of bonded slaves and maintained constantly by Micro Sword CE's to have the sharpest edge in the kingdom. You have a puny little pistol not even 1/4 the size of my sword, that no-one knows how to sharpen and therefore must cost a fortune to keep in service"
Hee Hee Hee. Someone mentioned hacking microwave ovens on the internet. This always causes hords of hobnailed booted safety nazis to come out of the woodwork to tell us how incredably dangerous this is. Isn't there a list of internet truisms that this should be included on?
A couple years ago I started a large hardware conversion project for a major telco. One of the requirements was a fairly large database to support real time call processing. I had already told the customer that I would only do the job if it was on a non-Microsft platform so I didn't need to worry about them wanting SQL Server. However, since they were a large telco I assumed that they wanted a well know commercial product so I proposed either Oracle or Informix - their preference. Their director of DP said something like "it's too bad we can't use MySQL" since they were using it for some smaller applications, unknown to me. My next comment was "do you want to use MySQL?". The answer was "yes, provided it could do the job". I said "I will make it do the job". Now it's been about two years and MySQL has almost faded into the background. It just runs, unlike my experiences with Oracle and Informix where you have to constantly administer them. That's my personal experience, your mileage may vary depending on your skill and attitude.
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Just saw the Halloween episode last night where little Maggie was descovered to be sired by the aliens. At the end of the episode they zoomed straight up from Springfield into space. The spot they started from was almost exactly where Houston Texas is.
Site 73 is definately not a ham radio site. The 'Cantenna' article shown there drives the clueless meter to new heights.
Why not use lawyers instead. They aren't as cute and no-one gets attached to them.
I've seen that regular geeks can build things such as quantum force microscopes in their own homes, how hard would it be for someone to build a quantum crypto system?
Not to mention Nanking and Manila...
"The JoyDress is integrated with flexible vibrapads that vibrate by programmed impulses from a thin, user-controlled command pad connected by tiny wires. It enhances the feeling of body consciousness with pleasant sensations that energize feelings, stimulate blood circulation, and give you a gentle massage."
Just imagine. Hacked to run linux, wireless LAN, etc, etc.
Stupid Touch Pad!!!
>>>However the lights in the article are being by the electric field driven by leakage current which is lost anyway.
You can get quite a bit of power with just a few loops of wire in the right place under the high tension lines. It would be stealing since you are putting additional load on the power lines. However the lights in the article are being by the electric field driven by leakage current which is lost anyway.
I suspect the lights are lighted by the electric field instead of the magnetic field required for mutual inductance.
It sounds like it is possible for an ordinary person to contest patents. Of course the patent attys and other's who have a lot to lose will say all sorts of scary reasons why not, but here's a couple thoughts that I have on the subject...
1. The Scientologists tried to scare off their critics by throwing high dollar lawyers at them. Some of the critics countered very successfully by acting as their own lawyers and filing and handling their own cases. Seems to me that this tactic will work with the patent office since anyone should be able to represent themselves. What can the patent office do to you anyway for trying to use the system?
2. A while back the FCC had it's whole fee structure thrown out when it was declaired unconstitutional and discrimatory. I think the main reason was that it discriminated in favor of large businesses. Seems to me that the patent office is in the same boat today. Maybe a class action suit against the patent office fee structure is due.
3. No one really has come out and said if there is a fee for filing a prior art claim against an existing patent. Is there?
How hard is it to file file art papers with the patent office? Does the patent office charge for these filings? Can anyone do it? Maybe it's time to generate some boilerplate filings and start attacking some of these bogus patents out there.
"The first thing you must do is to find a way to save Hubble. If you cannot do that then I have serious doubts of NASA's commitment to be anything other than a welfare program for aerospace contractors"
Lost interest in that worthless show when then converted a Mustang into a lawnmower. Hanging chrome plated non-functional mower blades from the car doors is suppose to be cool? Caught one of the later shows where they tried to drive a couple backhoe blades off a pair of hydraulic pumps using a little tiny fan belt coupled to a car motor. Seems they could figure out why the fan belt kept braking. Jesse was there the whole time and didn't catch on. Makes me wonder how real his bikes are. Don't count on Monster Garage for any useful inspiration.
Hollywood likes to take a good movie (like the Matrix) and make lousy sequels to them. Why don't they takie a lousy movie (like the Core) and make a decent sequel?
This was pretty remarkable considering that the earthquake was something like the third or forth largest in the world that year. Alaska routinely gets earthquakes that would level cities in other parts of the world. I've set though a couple 5 plus ones that people there hardly mentioned the next day. Now if they could only stop the drunks from shooting holes in the pipeline...
While we are at it why not commercialize air, commercialize water, commercialize every spoken and written word, commercialize music, commercialize feelings, commercialize everything. People have no right to enjoy anything unless some company owns it and can get paid for it. People are here to serve corperations not the other way around.
PS
This is sarcasm... but that's the way a lot of business people think
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Check out the first glossary entry in http://www.cyberstar.com/tech_resources.
I've got to stop sniffing the whiteout confiscated from the MS Windows users. After reading the following quote from the article...
In the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones is confronted by an obviously highly skilled and aggressive local sword fighter who clearly expects to hack up our hero after a glorious, and ritualistic, hand to hand battle. Unfortunately Dr. Jones is too harried to play, and shoots him dead at twenty paces in a classic demonstration of what happens when a clearly superior technology appears on the scene.
I had this vision...
Bill 'Rabid Sword Fighter' Gates faces off Indiana 'Linus' Jones...
Bill: "What makes you think you can even begin to whoop me and my mighty MS Sword 3.1XP.NT.DOS!?! I've already vanquished CPM, IPM, GEM, Lotus, and the Federal Govment. I have a huge mighty MS sword developed by thousands of bonded slaves and maintained constantly by Micro Sword CE's to have the sharpest edge in the kingdom. You have a puny little pistol not even 1/4 the size of my sword, that no-one knows how to sharpen and therefore must cost a fortune to keep in service"
Linus: Bang!
There - Problem solved.
Hee Hee Hee. Someone mentioned hacking microwave ovens on the internet. This always causes hords of hobnailed booted safety nazis to come out of the woodwork to tell us how incredably dangerous this is. Isn't there a list of internet truisms that this should be included on?
Now I know why we are looking for the 'deck of card' guys in Iraq. Our government wants to learn from the pros on how to go after these cases.
A couple years ago I started a large hardware conversion project for a major telco. One of the requirements was a fairly large database to support real time call processing. I had already told the customer that I would only do the job if it was on a non-Microsft platform so I didn't need to worry about them wanting SQL Server. However, since they were a large telco I assumed that they wanted a well know commercial product so I proposed either Oracle or Informix - their preference. Their director of DP said something like "it's too bad we can't use MySQL" since they were using it for some smaller applications, unknown to me. My next comment was "do you want to use MySQL?". The answer was "yes, provided it could do the job". I said "I will make it do the job". Now it's been about two years and MySQL has almost faded into the background. It just runs, unlike my experiences with Oracle and Informix where you have to constantly administer them. That's my personal experience, your mileage may vary depending on your skill and attitude.
I think the keyword here is "Hype"
Sounds like a Unisys type company setting themselves up for another bogus IP land grab.